Lawyer can’t discover the identity of ‘John Doe’ posters

Insults, but not defamation

A lawyer cannot discover the identity of an online poster who called her a “run of the mill court appointed attorney,” a Fairfax Circuit judge has ruled.
That wasn’t even the worst of the comments offered by a John Doe poster, who also referred to Fairfax lawyer Andaleeb Geloo as “fat,” using a slur for Pakistani.
But ...